There is a snow man floating around in the Kuiper Belt - Who'd of thunk it?

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No, it's not really a snow man, but it looks somewhat like one. 2014 MU69 is an unusual shaped stellar object, floating out in the area way out there, known to Astronomers and even regular people like myself, as the Kuiper Belt. It has a name actually. They call it Ultima Thule, and it is basically two small planetesimals connected together for one reason or the other. Perhaps over billions of years they ended up connected as they once probably orbited each other for a very long time until their gravity, even though not that strong, pulled them eventually together. Here is an article link from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetesimal Space dot com has some facts for you to read and I think you will become more enthusiastic about NASA's New Horizons Program. https://www.space.com/32049-kbo-2014-mu69.html This YouTube is a long one, but it is a good one. It is all about looking for what's out there, beyond the orbit of Pluto in an area that surrounds our solar system called the Kuiper Belt. You will like it if you like Astronomy. It takes many years to make such a discovery and the likelihood of another potential flyby of another similar object like Ultima Thule , in the Kuiper Belt in the future, could be a very long time from now. Because of the vastness of space and the great distance of such objects in that region of our solar system, it will keep us wondering for years and years to come. Such spacecraft that travel so far from earth, will not be using solar panels as much, due to the fact that from that far out, our sun generates little light energy from that point, other forms of energy will be employed. Here is another YouTube link for you to look at. Enjoy your mental journey in outer space. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMp1EDl2wB8